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Those were the sentiments of some guests who just finished lunch with about 25 others at the Loder Senior Center on Analomink Road in East Stroudsburg Friday. The center's visitors come to laugh and joke, kid one another and enjoy each others company.
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The school board approved the sale last August contingent on Pocono Services financing the purchase. The agency secured a no-down-payment 20-year mortgage at 4 percent interest from Peoples Security.
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Despite pleas for tax relief from property owners who say taxes are killing the housing market in an area already swamped with record foreclosures, the Stroudsburg Area School board Wednesday night approved a 5.9 mill tax increase in its $104 million budget for 2016-17 to help plug a $5.6 million deficit. In addition to passing the budget, framed by Superintendent Cosmas Curry as part of a two to three year fix of the district's financial problems, the school board approved 13 demotions in eight departments, affecting one teacher each in English, social studies and mathematics; two in science, three in reading, one each in physical ed, special ed, and two permanent substitutes.
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Regional Headlines

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a plan to continue furthering its initiatives within the private flood insurance market in 2017. This comes after the North Central part of the state of Pennsylvania saw flooding in many areas outside of identified flood hazard zones this fall following a series of storms, with the U.S. Department of Transportation issuing $1 million in Emergency Relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration to repair flood-damaged roads and bridges.
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Blighted residential and commercial properties are a major impediment to rehabilitation and redevelopment efforts in cities and towns throughout Pennsylvania. However, late in the 2016 legislative term, the Pennsylvania House and Senate enacted new laws that will change the rehabilitation and redevelopment landscape.
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Elizabeth M. Datner has been appointed chair of emergency medicine at Einstein Healthcare Network. Datner spent the majority of her career at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and University of Pennsylvania Health System, where she served as an attending emergency physician, associate residency director, medical director, and vice chair of clinical operations for the department of emergency medicine.
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Prior to joining Nationwide Appraisal Network, Bankus worked for almost eight years at Streetlinks Lender Solutions , serving for the past three years as an account manager/client advocate. Joseph Beatty has also joined the company as appraiser relations manager and will lead the recently formed appraiser relations department.
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National Headlines

The charred remains of the home where five-year-old Quinn Butt died on April 24, 2016, is seen in this December 9, 2016, handout photo. Trent Spencer Butt faces charges of first degree murder and arson.
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Single mom, Cheryl Alexander, lived with her four children in a small house in Jacob's Hill, Wallerfield blocked around with plywood and galvanise sheets. She bought puzzles and other toys for the children and thought they would sit on the floor and play with them.
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Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB' rating to the following bonds expected to be issued on behalf of Miami Jewish Health System, Inc. : The bonds are secured by a pledge of gross revenues and a mortgage on certain property of the obligated group and a debt service reserve fund. WIDE ARRAY OF ELDERLY SERVICES: Miami Jewish provides a unique array of services for the elderly, drawing from a fairly geographically limited service area in Miami-Dade County.
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Representatives of a potential medical marijuana dispensary currently in the state's licensing process came before the Lakeville Board of Selectmen recently to discuss the possibility of dispensary and/or cultivation facility in town. There to speak to the selectmen were Ben Smith of 4Front Advisors and Eric Casey of Mission Partners, appearing on behalf of the proposed Fresh Meadow Farms dispensary operation.
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Several other research firms have also recently issued reports on MAB1. FinnCap reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 420 price objective on shares of Mortgage Advice Bureau PLC in a research report on Wednesday, September 28th.
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